The Taste of a Man Author:Slavenka Drakulic, Christina Pribichevich Zoric She is a Polish graduate student, finishing her doctorate in New York. He is a Brazilian anthropologist, in the city on a three month research grant. They meet by chance in the New York public Library, fall in love and move into a tiny apartment together. Tereza has a lover waiting for her in Poland, Jose a wife and child in Sao Paulo. It would ... more »seem this could only be the most temporary of affairs. Yet, as Tereza recounts the extraordinary texture of their lives together, a portrait emerges of a relationship conducted at the extreme edge of sensuality -- a relationship defying all conventional definitions. Jose and Tereza have no common language, they are exiled from their cultures, and for each of them the body of the other becomes everything: spirituality, sustenance, almost unbearable pleasure.« less